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Navarre, I am completely serious when I say this.... so don't laugh (yet) Patching drywall is easier than reassembling a glass aquarium ;) So, that said, come down the hall and cut a hole in the wall where you'd have to lean it up... if it's gonna get wedged in place. I have the utmost faith...

I've seen them at Ripley's Aquarium before, and they're probably about 8" across and 14" long with the spiny tail. And... they get bigger than that. WAY too big for most aquariums.

So then fill us in on the details, please. What lighting are you gonna use? What for filtration? Powerheads and circulation? How much live rock? How much sand? Sump/refugium?

I have a buddy who goes to the Savannah College of Art & Design.... but personally I don't see myself coming to Savannah in the forseeable future. Maybe I can have him pick up a rock for me next time he's coming home :) I was in my LFS today, and no leathers or anything like that. All he...

Navarre: A biowheel is a compact and easy version of a wet-dry filter.... except it uses a turning wheel in the water stream instead of bioballs. If bio balls are considered a nitrate factory in a SW tank, a biowheel will be too. If you're doing fish only... you might be fine with the...

Watch who you use that word "coral" in front of. I was posting on the Subaru board asking who else kept SW tanks, because I know quite a few of them do, and when I mentioned "coral" and posted the pic of my polyps, someone was QUICK to jump in with the nerdy "That's not coral... those are a...

I've always heard inverts and corals are more sensitive than fish to acclimation, so you're supposed to do it slower. For the polyps I got, I floated the bag for about an hour and a half, and ever 15 minutes I would go and take a bit of the bag water out and toss it... and a bit of my tank...

No you don't need it sam.... not really. I'll be on IRC today at about 9am our time (GMT-5). Find me and we'll talk about it. I can tell you all about what has been done to mine, which is a 20g long.

I'd also be concerned about the amount of salt crud that would end up on the glass. I use a Current-USA Satellite rig inside a canopy with no glass. It has a piece of thin plexiglass as part of the assembly to keep the salt air off the contacts and such, and that plexi has to be cleaned about...

Yeah, just buy an RO unit or buy RO water from your LFS if they sell it. Much easier than worrying about what's in rain water or naturally collected sea water.

Well this certainly got off topic ;) Navarre, that looks NICE! I had asked the LFS owner about getting some of that, but he didn't have any when I was in there last time. For now, all I have is a rock with some button polyps on it. They've really started spreading since I put them in there...

According to their web page, it's reef safe. http://www.aquariumpharm.com/aqfish.html Let's hope they're right.

Navarre: You should write that up as a sticky detailing what a person is likely to go through with a new tank! A short little thing about time frames and order that the algae and such are likely to appear would be a WONDERFUL addition I think!! My tank is about a month old, and I'm likely to...

You using tap water? Diatom algae LOVES phosphates and silicates from normal tap water. Try some type of Phosphate reducing filter media to prevent future diatom algae, and get some hermit crabs to clean up what's there now.

Sometimes you're not gonna have a say in the matter, too. I just bought some button polyps the other day, and considering they come already attached to a rock.... that's just how it's gotta be. If you look, you can see it doesn't begin to come close to either the rock it's sitting on, the rock...

I've got one called "The Complete Book of the Marine Aquarium" that I happened to find at Petsmart (who strangely doesn't sell anything else related to marine aquariums.. *shrug*). It's got big sections on corals and inverts, and the part that amazed me... HUGE sections on identifying types of...

Not to hijack, but why do you think a 30g reef won't be "satisfying"? And why would he need a Precision Bullet $300 skimmer for a 30g reef tank? I don't know how much that one you posted will do... but if you want to stay in a reasonable range and still get decent quality, take a look at the...

I don't know that I'd go that far. If you want to do corals, those things are necessary. However, if you just want a fish only tank.... I wouldn't think you'd need to watch any of those other levels really. Right now mine is a fish only with live rock, and the only thing outside of nitrates...

Hahaha... I remember seeing the story of that on a website. A car was coming down the street near that parking garage. For some reason, it went off the road, up the little curb and banking there, into the parking garage, skipped off the top of two cars before hitting that SUV. The SUV rolled...

General rule of thumb.... if you order it over the internet, it's gonna be uncured. If it's at a local fish store sitting in a tank of water.... you should ask to be certain, but it's probably already cured. That's why these places on the internet are so cheap.... there's gonna be work and...

That "dinky" pet store is your best hope. The store I go to is owned and run by one guy.... he's the only employee. It's in a little tiny old strip mall that looks run down on the outside, but is absolutely gorgeous on the outside. Unless I need something on one of the days he's closed, I try...

Filters should be pretty much the same. I know in Europe the big thing are Eheim canisters. Over here we have them but they're ungodly expensive, so most people use Fluval instead. Over here, everybody brags about the Marineland Biowheel filters.... yet in England they haven't even heard of...

I have the Aquarium Pharmaceuticals kits too. The instructions are on the back of each card that shows the colors. But, here's the gist of it. High Range pH: Fill to the line, add 5 drops of reagent, shake, check color Ammonia: Fill to the line, add 8 drops from bottle one, add 8 drops from...

Don't forget "ambushing" the tank at night with a flashlight to catch a glimpse of the bristleworms and 'pods' out and about ;) The first few weeks with a new tank is full of a lot of "HOLY CRAP! What is THAT!" moments :D Looks nice, keep up a log of what you do to it.

For the record.... we don't get Rowa Phos :( I looked for some last week.... trying to cut down on the phosphates in my tank from my initial setup with well water. That's why I was kinda trying to warn him now before he starts what might be in store. I'm not sure why, but Rowa Phos doesn't...

There's no chlorine in it because it's straight out of a well... not processed by a water plant. You can try it with mixed tap water to set it up... because you're gonna be using so much water.... but if the brown algae gets out of hand, then you can toss in some Phosguard or something. In the...

You also need to do something to get the pH up to marine range... .as close to 8.3 as you can. I'm surprised moving the fish from the tank they were in to one with that pH didn't shock them and kill them right then. If I were you, I'd get rid of both damsels and the tang. If you want to...

Most stores I've seen around here that sell live rock sell it for $5.99/lb.... or that one store sells pieces that are heavily encrusted with purple coraline algae for $7.99/lb... I think. What did they charge at your store?!

It's a bristleworm of some type. Doesn't look like a fireworm, so I wouldn't worry about it. They're basically necessary cleaners in a SW tank. No pics here, but a nice FAQ about what they are and what they do, with what should be a common sense warning of "DO NOT TOUCH THEM!!!"...

RO is the Reverse Osmosis... water that has been purified by running it through a rather slow filtration process ;) It gets rid of any heavy metals and other impurities you don't want. Beneficial trace elements will be added in by the salt mix or can be dosed using things like the...

Behind a rock will effect the current and flow. They look ugly now, but over time they'll be encrusted with coraline algae and will turn purple, red, etc so they kinda blend in. I know they're an eyesore, but set it for efficiency and looks will fall in line. As for filtration, the live rock...

Maybe you could call it a Christmas Crab.... and put a harness on it to pull a sleigh ;) Now you've just gotta find something willing to be Santa :D

No, powerheads are just for water circulation.

No no, you NEED powerheads. The live rock handles the biological filtration, so you need to keep good water movement around the rock for that. If you have corals or inverts that are filter feeders, or something like firefish that depend on food to float past them... current becomes more...

Look at the link I posted earlier http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_overfl...r.asp?ast=&key=

Ask your LFS... I was in there last week and said something to the owner of mine about having to get rid of a 3 stripe damsel before we could get a clown fish because the damsel is just so mean. He said he'd loan me a trap if I needed to catch it and bring it bak to him. All you probably need...

Don't mean to hijack here, but while you're on the subject of egg crate, I've gotta ask. Why would you use it to support LR? From the people I talked to before starting my tank, there were two schools of thought. One, you put LR in first, directly on the glass, and pour the sand around it...

I vary what I feed my fish, but I'll agree that mine don't seem to like the Wardley's stuff as well as other things. I don't have any set schedule for what I feed my fish each night... just whatever my hand lands on. My neons, rasboras, danios, and betta all seem to enjoy blood worms, tiny...

I had debated doing a sump for my 20g nano, and eventually put it in a place where I couldn't physically fit a sump anyway. I couldn't drill mine because it's tempered glass, so I had looked at the hang on overflow boxes. They siphon the water down to a sump, and then you have to find a way to...

As I understand it, Caribbean rock is more porous and lighter than Fiji rock, and as such the same weight will get you more actual volume of rock. Whereas you would need 50lbs of Fiji rock, 40lbs of Caribbean rock would take up the same space in your tank. Of course, I could be wrong, but that...